AVIATION: The Bird Watcher

 Plautus (254?-184 B.C.) In his exalted soaring into the unforgiving
air, man in his bird has reaped all the riches he ever dreamed of 
the poetry of flight itself and the victory over time and space. But in
the swift tumble of progress called the Air Age, he has wrought more
hard truth than poetry. The truth: the skies over the U.S.  busiest
of all air borne nations  are roaring with an astonishing complex of
featherless birds. Not counting 22,000...